Alma Taylor won no great battles, she found no cures for the ails of society. This book is about her perseverance through faith. Her journals are evidence of that and for the most part I have attempted to remain true to those journals. Alma's faith sometimes lived in the open with active calls to its principles. As she aged, her faith aged with her becoming a wellspring for private renewal and in the end adaptation. Alma was, like many, a seeker for a truth she could believe in and ideals she believed that could be achieved. Those beliefs take different shape for all of us. Perhaps, when all is said and done, the most important thing is merely to have them.